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  Searching for Highlighted/Spotlighted Posts
 
How would I go about searching for old messages in a specific group that have been highlighted or spotlighted by members? For example, I want to find all the h/s'd posts in .technic in the past 2 years. How can this be done? thanks, TJ (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Searching for Highlighted/Spotlighted Posts
 
(...) AFAIK, it cannot be done yet. Another thing to add to the 'Advanced Search' feature. One day, we'll have such a thing :) Dan (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Searching for Highlighted/Spotlighted Posts
 
(...) Well, can the spotlight page ((URL) be modified so that you can look back more than 14 days? Or could it be modified so that you could search a particular time span (e.g. March 1, 2000 to May 1, 2000)? I did try searching in NEWS for (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Searching for Highlighted/Spotlighted Posts
 
(...) I haven't really looked into it yet, but from what I know, the index that is used just indexes the article data, and the author's name/email. The '(details)' you see will not show up anyway, since it's not part of the article at all - it's (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: Searching for Highlighted/Spotlighted Posts
 
(...) Okay, thanks. Keep us informed of any "Advanced Search" updates! TJ (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Searching for Highlighted/Spotlighted Posts
 
(...) Alternately, could the highlight textual icons be added to the 'brief' message list display? It wouldn't be a search, but at least you could see at a glance which messages got tagged. Steve (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Searching for Highlighted/Spotlighted Posts
 
(...) uhhhh... they are already there? (URL) an example) :) Dan (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Searching for Highlighted/Spotlighted Posts
 
(...) DOH!!! Well, at least I know it's a good idea. ;) Steve (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)

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